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Holistic Advocacy Intensives

Building Stronger Communities Together!

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What are holistic advocacy intensives?

The Holistic Advocacy Intensives are interactive, advocacy trainings designed to demystify the “child welfare system” and build the power of communities, allies and co-conspirators to interrupt harm and support families. These sessions offer tools for advocacy, early defense, the truth about mandated reporting and reparative justice—and are grounded in the wisdom of those directly impacted.

We offer:

  • Open-access intensives for individuals, small teams, defender agencies
  • Contracted trainings for organizations (scaled by budget and staff)

Our Goal

BLU’s Advocacy Intensive allows you to earn CLE credits, while gaining hands-on training, deep insights, and practical tools to support families impacted by the child welfare system. 

which track is for you?

At BLU, we offer two distinct training tracks—Open-Access Intensives and Contracted Organizational Trainings—to ensure our Advocacy Intensives are both equitable and sustainable.

Open-Access Intensives are designed to center and prioritize directly impacted parents, caregivers, grassroots organizers, and small teams and defender agencies who may not have institutional backing or access to professional development funds. These intensives operate on a sliding scale, allowing participants to self-select the tier that reflects their financial reality. This model ensures that those most harmed by systems of family policing are not priced out of critical knowledge, tools, and organizing spaces. The sliding scale reflects our values: solidarity for those with limited access, sustainability for our programming, and redistribution for those with resources to help underwrite the costs for others


Contracted Organizational Trainings are tailored for larger organizations—such as law schools, and advocacy institutions—with dedicated budgets for training and staff development. These institutions are charged at rates proportionate to their financial capacity, based on annual budget size. These private trainings allow us to meet organizational needs while also generating revenue that supports our broader mission, including our ability to subsidize open-access participation.


This dual-track approach matters because equity in access must be built into every layer of our work. The truth is, transformative advocacy training has often been inaccessible to the very people most affected by family regulation systems. Our structure allows us to redistribute resources, center directly impacted voices, and ensure the financial sustainability of our organization. Every dollar raised through organizational contracts and redistribution tiers goes directly toward paying system-impacted trainers, compensating lived experts, and funding BLU’s movement-building efforts. This isn’t just a training model—it’s a justice strategy.


ASSESSMENT GUIDE FOR SLIDING SCALE:

Track 1 – Open-Access Intensives

Open to individuals and small teams including system-impacted parents and caregivers, allies, social workers, educators, doulas, mutual aid organizers, health workers, and NY State defender organizations.  

  • Grassroots advocates and organizers with limited financial access.
  • Individuals impacted by family policing, incarceration, or immigration enforcement. 
  • People without consistent income or financial safety nets.
  • Mutual aid workers, caregivers, and volunteers paying out-of-pocket.
  • Individuals living paycheck to paycheck or with significant debt.


  • People or teams who can meet basic needs but have limited disposable income.
  • Small nonprofits, organizations with annual budgets under $250K.
  • Individuals who may have some financial stability but limited institutional support.


  • Individuals and organizations with steady income or budget flexibility.
  • Those who can pay the actual cost of programming without hardship.


  • Well-resourced individuals or institutions who can support equitable access for others.
  • Defender offices, funders, and organizations with professional development budgets under 5,000
  • This will allow pay for impacted orgs or folx to join (cover solidarity rate)

Indicators of this category include:

  • Annual org budget over $1M
  • Highest-paid staff earn over $75K
  • Have paid for multiple staff to attend external trainings
  • Committed to redistributing resources to directly impacted communities


Track 2 – Contracted Organizational Trainings

Organizations can hire BLU to deliver customized versions of our advocacy intensive for their staff or community base. There must be at least (2) facilitators present.


Rates Per Facilitator – Per Facilitator

  • Organizational budget must be under $600K


  • Organizational budget must be $600K–$1.2M


  • Organizational budget must be $1.2M–$5M


  • Organizational budget must be over $5M


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